NextNav Counters Tolling Industry's Study on 900 MHz Interference
NextNav filed at the FCC a report by the Brattle Group arguing that the 900 MHz band can be used safely to provide positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) as a GPS alternative without harming other band incumbents. The new report, posted Friday in docket 24-240, counters a previous study -- written by Harold Furchtgott-Roth, an economist and former FCC commissioner, and filed by the International Bridge, Tunnel & Turnpike Association -- that raised interference concerns (see 2504300022).
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Renee Gregory, NextNav's vice president of regulatory affairs, noted that this is the second report that the company filed this month to defend its proposal. “The economic filing underwritten by tolling interests should be set aside from any serious consideration due to extreme, worst-case assumptions not supported by technical evidence and inconsistent with NextNav’s proposal,” she said. “Its cost estimates are fatally flawed, including erroneously presuming that both licensed and unlicensed users would need to either dramatically alter or discontinue their operations in the lower 900 MHz band.”